The day after or week after these were dropped 60-100 years ago, did people not think, there’s a bomb over there we should make it safe.
Edit: I singled out the UK because they discovered a bomb from World War Two today in Plymouth. I know the UK is still in Europe.
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First off, keep in mind we droped MILLIONs of tons of bomb and the failure rate was about 15%. Especially for impact detonated bombs landing on soft soil. That’s a lot of bombs to keep track of and I don’t think anybody has an accurate count of how many bombs were used period.
Second, because these were duds often landing on soft soil these bombs tended to burry themselves far past their tails. You’d hear a thud and might see a hole in the ground at best and just a patch of disturbed dirt at worse.
Third, bombs were almost never dropped alone. Carpet bombing usually involved entire squadrons of bombers dropping hundreds of bombs most people were too busy hiding to count how many bombs detonated.
Because the Germans Plastered the UK with dumb bombs , many of which didn’t go off.
And we did the same to them.
We are talking thousands of Bombs on almost a daily basis for over a year.
I’m not 100% sure if this is the absolute truth , but in the early days of WW2 bombing was kept to strategic targets only. German Bombers Bombed civillians in the UK by accident.
Which then led to the British responding by Bombing German Civillians.
Then the gloves were off and Bombing civillians became the norm for the duration of the blitz.
If I see a bomb landing my first thought is not gonna be to ‘go over there and make it safe’.
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